Caetano Veloso (Tropicália)

Artist: Caetano Veloso
Label: Polygram Int'l
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 042283855724
EAN: 0042283855724
ASIN: B00004TR0P

Release Date: 2000-05-25

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Tracks:

Tropicália
Clarice
No Dia Em Que Eu Vim-me Embora
Alegria, Alegria
Onde Andarás
Anunciação
Superbacana
Paisagem Util
Clara
Soy Loco Por Tí, América
Ave Maria
Eles

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Customer Reviews:

If you don't understand Portugese..........2007-01-14

This record is an interesting historical document of a Brazilian artist digesting many of the influences of pop music in the late 1960s and applying it to his art. In other words, it is both derivative and original at the same time.

It is melodic, the arrangements are nice. The styles represented are rather ecclectic.

I can't make any judgments on the lyrical content since it is sung in Portugese and there is no translation of the extensive lyrics on the enclosed lyric sheet. The music alone is not enough to hold my interest on repeated listening, and with no lyrics, the album is of limited value to me.

By the way, the album is monophonic, and it sounds like many pop music efforts of its time -- attempting to squeeze vocals and multimiked orchestral arrangements and guitars/drums all into one center channel. The sound is dated: compressed, and a little tinny.

I'm sure that at the time this sounded groundbreaking to some people. Listening in a modern setting, apart from the fact that it is melodic, whereas other pop music at the time of its releast was getting increasingly agressive, it is good music but not great.

Oh Snap.......2006-04-09

Oh. What? This album could be the hottest. All tropicilia albums are something to check out, but this one rides into the sunset. Out of all those fools...this one is in the top three. Definetly his best album. If you like anyhting. You'll find something to like on this. Essential.

Great Lyrics.......2003-11-27

This is an excellent album. Caetano's records of 1967 and 1969, when released were like nothing else played in Brazil at the time.

Caetano's lyrics are always excellent, and, in my opinion, he as yet to outdo himslef after his first two records. He and Chico Buarque de Holand are the premier lyricists in Brazilian music.

A testament to that is my memory, as I recently found out I could recall by heart all the lyrics for all the songs in these albums, more than 30 years after learning them at three years old.

Never mind that I have lived in foreign country, speaking in a foreign language for many years.

i was delighted to see the CD's at amazon, and just had to purchase them.

Really good one.......2003-02-26

This is the first Caetano Veloso CD I have bought and this is a really good one. Some of the songs are really typical brazilian music but please, listen to "Clarice", the best one.

"The real Caetano finally stands up".......2002-07-16

After a pretty-sounding, but rather tame debut album as a bossa nova songwriter ("Domingo"), Caetano finally finds his mad-cap, eclectic, "musicofagiac" groove on this 1968 2nd album; this recording, along with the original "Tropicalia" record, Gal's first solo effort "Gal Costa" and few other discs are the classic "texts" of Tropicalia. This record laid the tracks for the next 15 years of pop music in Brazil. By 1968 Brazilian pop had become so staid, conventional, contrived, and conforming to a standard paradigm of bossa nova, that this record and the recordings of Caetano's contemporaries literally shook the nation out of its slumber. These records truly were - and still are - wildly revolutionary.... and superbacana.

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